This is a bug that's hard to recreate but I have noticed it for a while with Mozilla builds (it happened in today's Mozilla build) as well as Netscape 6.1. I'm not sure when it began. What will happen is that I can not edit or enter text in form fields on a page. I can't get it to let me insert new text or modify text already there. One way I know to continue on is to press Ctrl-O and then cancel that dialogue. The form fields in the page then become accessible. Using other menu options might fix it, I need to test more. I think it mostly happens when you first load the browser, but again it's hard to lock down information on this problem. Have other people experienced this?

Reporter: Please see the bug reporting guidelines at http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html It is very hard to diagnose problems without detailed information. Please post BuildIDs and any URLs where this occurs with any kind of reprodcability. Thanks

It happened twice for me today on 2001091703 on W2K. I've had it happen in other builds. The URL it's happening for me is http://www.bantu.com/login.cfm however I don't believe that page has anything to do it with. It's just that I have that as my home page and thus it loads when I start Mozilla. I changed my start page to Yahoo so will see if it happens with that some. I seem to notice it when I load Mozilla thou it may have happened in other situations. You load Mozilla and you can't add/modify/delete text in form input fields or in the URL field.

WFM Win98SE 2001091703

Yes, unfortunately it works for me most of the time too, but it does happen a few times a week for a while.

I put in a URL for a copy of the page which this happens on (the actual page is on a private development server at my office). Unfortunately, it doesn't always happen on it.

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Today this bug occurred again with different circumstances. I was running today's build 2001092603 on W2K and I was on a google search page. I then went to enter some text in the URL field. I entered www.bantu.office/l and then clicked in the white space on the google page. I was then unable to enter teach in either the google input field or the URL field. There is a problem with this. Is there something I could do to give you more information on this? This problem does not seem to be reliably reproducible, but it does occur.

*** Bug 102174 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I haven't been able to reproduce this bug in form text widgets, but I'm hoping it's related to bug 103197 which happens when bringing up new XUL dialogs/windows. bclinger or steve, are you guys able to reproduce this problem without bringing up a new browser window?

It normally occurs when the browser is first started and data attempted to be entered in the first form field. It's happened in the "address line" a couple of times. When you state "new window" does that mean a 2nd physical window or one that is reached by clicking on a link and going to a different site? It's happened both ways, though normally the first time the browser starts in the first physical window, et cetera.

Still with build 2001100610

Still a problem with build number 2001100803

Still a problem with build 2001100903

Still a problem with build 2001101003.

bclinger: please stop posting daily status until we actually fix this bug... thanks.

Fine. One too many pieces of email? Is there a place to watch the development? or will a note be placed? or what? Frankly, I had not idea that I was interfering with you doing your job and wish to extend an apology.

you will receive notification via email for any activity on this bug... thanks.

Don't waste your time nor mine.

bclinger, it looks like you are cc'd on all the pertinent bugs (bug 100130 and in particular 103197), just watch your email for updates. Until then, we can only assume that there has been no progress/movement on a solution for the bug and that it is still present. Your efforts are appreciated, and I think an occassional (not daily) status would be cool. If this bug is preventing you from using Mozilla, we should probably raise the severity and perhaps add keywords that can raise this bug to the top of the list of priorities of whoever should be working on this. The fact that you see this on a regular basis tells me that it is something that needs to get fixed soon. Saari can we get someone to look at this bug and 103197?

I'm taking this for investigation

I'm still getting this with current builds. It seems like there has been no activity on this in a month. Anything I can do to help the team get this fixed?

Looking at the initial report, it seems a dupe of bug 82534. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82534 ***

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